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Shielding Against
the Invisible
Apart from ensuring our facilities are well Strategies employed by ()
equipped and ready, guidelines and standard the Medical Programme
operating procedures (SOP) are key in to ensure safety of HCW
ensuring containment of the virus. Throughout
the pandemic, the Medical Programme and the general public
developed, revised, adapted, and disseminated
policies, guidelines, trainings, and other
COVID-19 related information across all
levels of the healthcare facilities to be used
in the hospital settings. As such, the infection
prevention control unit under the Medical
Quality Care Section played a pivotal role in
this process. As a unit that is tasked to ensure
up-to-date, evidence-based guidelines during
this pandemic, data and recommendations
from international bodies such as the WHO,
scientific studies and national consensus were
used in its development process.
The Ministry of Health has an outstanding
record in ensuring the health and safety of the
nation. And this was echoed when the Joint
External Evaluation commended the Ministry’s
effort in developing the Malaysian strategies
for emerging diseases and public health
emergencies (MySED) 2 Workplan 2017-2021.
This framework was used as the bouncing off
platform to the development of many other
guidelines during this pandemic.
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